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This is a totally new re-edit of this song and is available to buy now on iTunes. I think this is the best video we have ever made and I am so proud of it. It makes the perfect show piece for the album, "Northern Soul 2008", and is this album's one and only slice of blue-eyed soul. This is a gorgeous late 60's, London sounding stomper with young, exciting new talent, Holly Harrison in front of the mike. This fabulous track, with its overtones of Petula Clark's "Downtown" (although quite different as a song) was originally cut for Venicia Wilson, who rescheduled six times before it became obvious that her problems meant she was not going to be doing a new track in the immediate future. Venicia was the former girlfriend of Steve Brookstein, and it was he who recommended Holly for the track as being just the right look and voice for something Venicia Wilson would have recorded. Holly not only sounded the part, but turned up to film in a Sixties mini-dress and bobbed Mary Quant style hairdo, looking like she arrived to film "Ready Steady Go" in 1965, complete with two inch eyelashes! This could be Centre City's most popular video of all time. Holly's manager, Alan Sheppard, has been a miracle worker, and delivered to us the consummate artist, who could knock Duffy and Amy straight off their perch. This track first premiered here on Youtube when we released the album "Northern Soul 2008". It is true to say that I have tried many times in my life to capture that quintessence of what makes a Northern Soul record actually work on the dancefloor, and with records like Sidney Barnes "Standing On Solid Ground" and Chuck Jackson "All Over The World", I certainly hit a popular chord. But this time I have never been more artistically satisfied. Everything about this wonderful new song suggests the magic and energy of the era that I fell in love with as a teenager. Forget the purists - this one has it all. If you can keep your feet still while listening to this, then you must be a country and western fan or something.
The album "Northern Soul 2008" was released on June 30th 2008 on Centre City Records, distributed once again by Passion Music and Pinnacle, and is now available on iTunes. I have spent over thirty five years honing my craft to the point when I am able to produce authentic records like this. Each song has an accompanying video of the artist basically performing it the studio and in outside locations, and the DVD will have four extra bonus tracks too. Holly and I co-wrote this wonderful song, "Bright Lights Of The City", which sounds like a classic 1960's Dusty Springfield masterpiece.